The Company Democracy Model

Dr. Evangelos Markopoulos was born in Kalamata Greece in 1967. He is an expert, entrepreneur, and scholar on Process and Project Management, Enterprise Engineering, Knowledge Management, and Innovation & Entrepreneurship. He holds a BA in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics, from the City University of New York, an MSc on Computer Science with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence from New York University, and a Ph.D. on ICT Project and Investments Management from University of Piraeus (Greece). He has worked as a computer scientist in the USA at ΙΒΜ, Siemens, and Bell Laboratories of AT&T. As an academic, he has worked in universities such as Hult International Business School, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), University College London (UCL), City University New York, (CUNY), Vaasa University (VU) and Turku University of Applied Sciences (TUAS). He won the 2018 HULT Prize Global Social Innovation competition with his UCL students, and he is part of the Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI-U) for Sustainable Innovation. Dr. Hannu Vanharanta was born in 1949 in Pori, Finland. He matriculated in 1967 and took his M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering at Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland. He began his professional career as a Technical Assistant at the Finnish Ministry of Trade and Industry. He entered then the engineering industry and gained valuable practical experience in many fields of industrial management. In 1995 he got his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Management at Åbo Akademi and started his academic career. He has had full professorships at the University of Joensuu, Lappeenranta University of Technology and Tampere University of Technology, Finland, and has now after retirement been visiting professor at Vaasa University and Poznan University of Technology. He has over 300 articles and publications in international journals and conferences.